Man, 30, indicted in rape of 6-year-old

A southeastern Ohio man is scheduled to be arraigned today on kidnapping, rape and other charges in connection with the abduction of a 6-year-old girl from her home.

Mary Beth Lane, The Columbus Dispatch

A southeastern Ohio man is scheduled to be arraigned today on kidnapping, rape and other charges in connection with the abduction of a 6-year-old girl from her home.

A Jackson County grand jury indicted Zachary R. Dunn on Wednesday on three counts of kidnapping, single counts of rape and felonious assault, and two counts each of abduction and gross sexual imposition, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and county Prosecutor Justin Lovett said in a news release.

The indictment was filed yesterday. Dunn, 30, is being held at the Jackson County jail.

Conviction on the most serious charge, child rape, is punishable by a maximum penalty of life in prison without possibility of parole.

The kidnapping charges include specifications alleging that Dunn is a sexually violent predator who took the girl with a sexual motivation, DeWine said.

Prosecutors from DeWine’s office are helping the county prosecutor with the case.

Dunn, who lives just outside Jackson, is accused of taking the girl from her home in Jackson. She was reported missing by her father shortly after 2 a.m. on July 26 and was found just before 4 p.m. that day at a home about 7 miles away in Liberty Township, Jackson police said.

The girl’s mother was in jail at the time on probation violations, and her father had been caring for her at the family home.

Dunn is accused of taking the girl while her father was away. County Children Services has placed the girl in foster care.

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